I will start with a lovely plant native to Texas and many other states.
Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides;
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=VEEN
This lovely annual can bloom its heart out until frost, and the butterflies love it. Very easy to grow.
What a beautiful daisy Frostweed, and it's native to most of the U.S.
I found this flower growing beneath an oak tree and log, senecio aureus has many common names: Golden senecio, golden ragwort, false valerian, squaw weed, life root herb, coughweed. As indicated by the name Coughweed, it was used many years as a medicinal herb to treat coughs and problems of the lungs; among lots of other medicinal uses. It's apparently no longer acknowledged do to the trace alkaloid-senecionine, which can be toxic to the liver.
Thank you Frostweed for starting this new thread :)
Trout Lily, Erythronium albidum from the Liliaceae family.
I love the Senecios, I took this picture on a trip to East Texas it was a gorgeous field of them.
http://wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=SEAM2
Josephine.
My groundsels are just beginning to bloom, not fully open but you can see them starting! Packera obovata is the one I have. And hopefully I'll have Cowpen Daisy soon.
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The senecio that's shown at the wildflower site you have there Frostweed is senecio ampullaceus. Is that what I have? I don't want to diary it wrong! That is quite the gorgeous field view! It seems to go forever. Hope to see a pic of yours when it blooms LindaTX.
I think this is Dogwood that I ran into today. Of course it is at the edge of the property, out of sight from the house! poo. I'll have to look into propagating it? I was reading that Dogwood is seriously threatened around here by some powerful fungus.
Dogwood is a native along the east coast up to Maine and west to eastern Texas and Missouri.
I don't think the senecio in your picture id the same as the one on mine, the leaf is very different.
It is hard to tell for sure, which one it might be, but yours has rounder leaves.
Just checking. I try to be very thorough with my ID's but I'm far from good at this point. But I think I have the correct one.
www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Senecio_aureus_page.html
That Texas thistle grows in Ky too.
This grows all over around here. Hundreds of acreas of them on the farm where we pasture some of our horses. I have no idea what it is called.
Some kind of ironweed?
Yes, Ironweed, if you show us the leaf we might be able to tell which one, there are many.
I love the thistles too, and the butterflies are crazy about them.
Here is a link to all the Vernonias, maybe you can find it there;
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch
Josephine.
I'll see if I can dig one up. I clicked on that link above but I didn't see what to do after I got there.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/stateSearch?searchTxt=vernonia&searchType=Sciname&stateSelect=US21&searchOrder=1&imageField.x=52&imageField.y=10
Try this link, for some reason the usda site is really tricky to link to. Hopefully it's a list of Ironweeds that grow in Kentucky.
I went to that second link and was able to use it. It looks like it is either a prairie iron weed or a new york iron weed.
This is a drawing of the prairie iron weed. The leaves look just right.
This is a pic of the new york iron weed and the flowers look the same. I think the leaves are not quite as big on this one as the ones are on the farm.
Popped in this forum to see if I could snoop around for a few ID's. We were in the Mojave desert area in So. Calif. over the weekend and the blooms were beautiful!
California coreopsis
California coreopsis & lupine
coreopsis, so cheerful
Yellow California coreopsis, cobalt blue Desert Bluebells with lavender Lupine. That dark blue was intense!
Indian Paintbrush
Here's a closeup of that intense blue. Desert Bluebell, Phacelia campanularia
Lupinus concinnus AKA Elegant Lupine
Malacothrix glabrata, desert dandelion
Calif. poppies of course!
Southern Sierra phacelia
Ok, so here is where I need ID help.
#2
#3
and what species of lupine?
#5, an itty bitty cutie
#5 leaves
So if no one knows, I will just take them to the Plant ID forum later.
A beautiful pink spined cactus with a scenic back drop.
Great pics. The intense blues, reds (Indian paintbrush), and oranges (poppies) really come through. Sadly, I can't help with the IDs, not my neck of the desert. ;)
Pretty! I don't know the CA wildflowers much. Looks like your desert is doing better than our non-desert on wildflower blooms. The drought has really wiped out our wildflowers! But this one is blooming because it's right by something I water. Squarebud Primrose, Calylophus Berlandieri, possibly subspecies pinifolius.
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I am sorry, I don't know the California wildflowers, but they sure are beautiful.
Josephine.
Thhere is a lady, Kelli on the weather forum that posts posts named picture of a lot of California wild flowers.
Could #1 be Phacelia fremontii? http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=6327
Oh, thanks Liz, I think it's a match! http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=&enlarge=0000+0000+0708+1021
Great pictures!
I took this yesterday. It's growing along the side of a gravel road. I believe it's huckleberry but I haven't had a chance to search for positive id.
